The New York Timesβbestselling authorβs pioneering true crime classic: Itβs βTruman Capoteβs In Cold Blood turned inside outβ (Newsweek).
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During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group of enlisted US Air Force airmen stationed at a nearby base. The victimsβincluding wife and mother Carol Naisbittβwere brutally tortured, shot in the head, and left for dead. Yet somehow, Carolβs sixteen-year-old son made it out aliveβand βthe emotional strain his family underwent during his year-long hospitalization, is the heart of Kinderβs storyβ (Kirkus Reviews).
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In Victim, the first true crime book to go beyond the headlines and tell story of love, loss, courage, and survival, βthe crime in question becomes not merely something that happened to somebody else somewhere else, but rather an event that touches us all firsthand and very deeply.β A compelling and tragic look at how lives can be changed forever by a random act of violence, it remains one of the most influential books in the victimsβ rights movement and has become required reading for trainees at the FBI Academy at Quantico (Boston Herald).